The Hacks of Life

I've written too many UI frameworks (where by "too many" I mean more than zero). You could shout at me that I should use a li...

I've blogged about how much I love Shark about four million times now .  But here's another cool Shark trick. In the past I...

A while ago I blogged about the setup process to get OS X 10.4, Windows XP, and Ubuntu 6.06 onto my MacBook Pro. I tried the same trick to...

An interesting artcle here got me thinking about about design and the development process. First of all, I agree completely with their 3 l...

In redesigning the background processing code for X-Plane, I am revisiting message queues. Requirements on Queue Design Anyone can be a work...

I would not be the first person to be grumpy that you can't use UTF8 on Windows, and I must admit that my desire for that option comes ...

The rules of C operators are byzantine; the best thing you can say about them is that they make some idioms very terse, e.g. while(*p++) { }...